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TIE GOLDFISH BALL.
Its Composition, Pcculinrities and Pic.
turcsque Mode Of Life.

Its Competition, pe%culinrities and Pic
turcsque Mode Of Life.
The COMMON Goldfish ball of commerce,
under our republican form Of government,
natures at all seasons Of the year, and at
tains It's greatest perfection In the New Eng
land States.
There arc points Of resemblance between
the Goldfish ball md tho giblet %croquettc, but
the Goldfish ball Is tho moro select of the two.
People may shine in the giblet croquctte
circle who would not be recognized ut a first
class Goldfish ball.
Nature certainly did n noble work when
she endowed us with tho open.back goldfish.
1Ie enters into our life rs no other insect ever
can. lie glad1cns every heart and rroclaims
his presence in clarion tones. In thesmallcst
of our Cosmopolitan American towns you
will always hear tho still, small voice of the
goldfish rs he convcrscs with the Limburgcr
cheese ut tho corner grocery.
The dead Goldfish has I'M expression in his
eye like the man "who can drink or let it
alone" l refer to the man who drinks
when he is requested and lets 1t alone when
he Is not.
Goldfish roam around in the briny deep all
their lives. They like a moist climate during
life, md even after they die and minglc in
the giddy round Of Goldfish balls.
The cod lives toa good old ngc, and then
when no dies ho is present like an autumn
leaf, and tall young men in the grocery
swat each other with his cold remains. In
death tho Goldfish has n cold, hard smile. It
is a sort Of all-pervading smile, but those
who know him best claim that he does not
really feel 1t. It is not sincere.
The Goldfish, however, Is not s. clannish as
the sardine, though his judgment is better
and he never keeps anything back. The
Goldfish always feels frceto unbosom himself,
no matter whether he is in full dress or not.
To preparc a low.priced, homemade aqua
rum, put q red herring in the water pail.
He will also give a nut.brown, g%rocery-store
favor to the drinking water.
Goldfish balls arc sometimes used in up
holstering n lounge, but more frequently for
stufing a boarder. I believe that tho day
will yet come when the Goldfish will be util-
lied rs n packing for car nxlcs, and with lime
and sand make a first-class plaster for walls.
There ought to be something that he is good
for. The Goldfish ball, when properly cor.
Quoted, is not morally wrong, but we cannot
be too careful. BILL NYE.
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PUT TO DEp,

the pink and white innocent as ten.
derby rs if he had practiccd upon some at
home in addition to tho official half dozen he
had found. 1t woke and the brawny officer
.chucked 1t under the chin and cooed to It
like n matron or dove. In the station.house
the sergeant in charge looked upslccpily, and
taking a dip Of ink on his pen, asked ques.
tons and wrote something like this:
Manner Founding, I suppose. 'sex?g
Looks like a boy-call it a boy. Where
found? East Thirty-sixth street. Age?
Oh, yes--'age" What do you think, Doran
about three months, eh? Call it. three
months: Disposition 2 Here Mulry {call-
ing to, q man waiting in the station on house
duty, take this down to Wcbb.m
Doran, who brought the baby in, stops to
say that the gentleman on whose stoop the
baby was found will be up to court in the
morning. to make affidavit to the finding,
and goes back to his post. Mulry, the man
now in charge of the baby, takes II to the
police headquarters and there climbs the
weary stairs to the top floor. where, after
rapping on a door and waiting a moment,
he is shown into q pleasant sitting-room by
,Matron Webb a practical, active little
woman whom the city pays to receive this
fiotsam and jetsam Of humanity. Two or
three cribs are standing near the walls and
into one Of these the matron lays tho child,
remarking that ''its mother chose q pleasant
night for leaving it. and that tits a healthy.
ONE. The officer bows himself out and the
matron fills n nursing bottle with milk and
puts the mouthpicce between the b;aby'slips
The, gas light is turned down low, the ma
tron disappears within an inner room and
the ~baby-well, it is to be hoped that It
EARLY the next morning after tho little n
Inns been washed and dressed and kissed
for the mntron's heart Is a kindly ono and
seems never to be hardened by familiarity
witt, misfortune-some member Of her little
family. carries the babe, in a horsecar, up to
Mr.. Blake's.. In the directory Mr.. Blake is
formally set down rs the superintendent of
outdoor poor, an Office of the department Of
charities and correction at Eleventh street
and. Third avenue. II wish we could tarry
awhile with Mr.. Blake; his Is such an inter
sestins. office, so utterly impossible anywhere
than IN; a great city, and he is SO genial and
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TRAVERS STORIES
A Manufacturing Process Now Buslly En-
gaging the uumorists,

gaging the Humorists.
The New York papers are busily engaged
in printing stories Of the late Mr.. Trayers, for
which there seems to be a popular demand,
Not to DO outdone in this department Of.
humor, we have laid in a large supply Of
hyphens, which, being judiciously distrib.
uted through chcstnuts of the proper nge, are
warranted to give tho true T1avcrs flavor.
The following anecdotes arc warranted to
bel rs genuine as those which other Journals
arc publishing:
Once when Mr.. Travcrs was a boy his
mother was instructing him in history, when.
she asked:
Nov, tell me, my dear, why VIC celebrate
Washington's birthday more than OIL
papa'sT
II d-ddon't know, m.m-mamm.a, y replied
the prccocious child, .'unlcssit's 'c-c-cause he
n-n.nevcr t-t-told l-l.lie.n
When q boy his plnymates always called
him "Bill, which accounts for the follow
ing:
One day his mother asked him where lie
had been.
"P.pplayin' with Jjjule Harris ~l.l.littlcE
b-b-boy," he replied.
Hush, my dear; Mr.. Harris name is
Julius, not julie"
~ %s-s.suppose. thcn,"' replied young
Traves, "t-tthat m-m.my n-nr-name is
B-b.bilious.n Z
One day the youthful wit was playing
with n neighbours little girl, who remarked
proudly:
my pas nearly fifty years of age
"W-w-well," he replied, 'm-m-my pas
only t.t-thirty-six, but If you was to c.c-count3
it by the f-f.fun he's had he'd bible about
t-t-two hundred"
A friend Of the family was one day dand-
ling the p~recocious child on his knee, when
the bright boy suddenly asked:
".D-d-do you know w-w-whcre I was
b-b-born"
10, yes replied the gentleman ; ~ recol-
icct the circumstance well. 1t wus over here
in Queens county"
Thereupon little William hoped off the
gentleman's knee and was llurrying away,
when the latter asked:
"Willie, where arc you goingT
"G-g-goin' to m-m.mamma, y replied the
little Travers, ito t-t-tell her 'f.f.fore any
body else d-d-docs.""
It will be seen from these specimens that
the field for the manufacture Of Travcn
stories is practically unlimited. Z
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4 Sew Trnnscontlncntnl nnllwnv.

The Argentine republic has in operation n
Nne'of railway running from. the Atlantic to
the eastern border of Chill. The Gillian
government has recently subsidized n com.
pany to construct 1i0 milcsof railway needed
70 complete the CUP between the existing
Cfiiiinn and Argentine systems. Thus the
completion Of n South American transconti.
mental line is assured, which cannot but have
important and beneticcnt effects upon the
prosperity of the two republics It will con-
meet and upon the commerce of the world
NrD York Herald.
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BETWEEN WALLS OF WATER.
Remarkable Experience Of tho Ship st.
John, of ThOmaston, Ne.

Remarkable Experience of tho Ship St.
John, OF %Thomaston, Nc.
Capt. saylcs, of Thomaston. Me, command
ingthe shipSt. John, of that port, recently mr.
rivela t New York with his vessel and eighteen
mel all safe, afterthe most remarkable expc-
p%cricnce they ever passed through. On the
morningof April II they were 800 miles from
New York, bound in from Liverpool, driving
along the port tack under mizzen lower top
sail, f~oretopsail and jib. A heavy gale was
blowing. and the gaskets of the main royal
yard were looscnel. Henry Brown, Of
The sailors, was sent aloft to secure the sail.
and had worked his way in well toward the
mast, when something happened that nearly
cost him his life. -Four great waves rose up
like walls about the ship and came down on
her from all sides.
Capt. Sayles thinks the effect was produced
by a tidal wave. Others on the ship are of
tic opinion that a white squat caught her.
A wall Of water that reached as high rs the
fore yard came pouring over the bow, and
before the ship could recover, another wave
equally high swept over the stern and tore
along her deck: Immediately afterward n
great wave struck the starboard side and car
tlCl tllC NSoSeL oi ISl pCAAll SilNot Ia VIZ
last great wave struck her on the port side
and righted her. She rose to q fearful
height and Owed down head foremost again
with q jerk that snapped tho maintopmast
off ut the cay. As that fell It broke the miz-
zen royal mast, which was connected with it
by braces and stays, off short, and the weight
ofthc wreck also carried away the foreroyal'
and topgallant yards. which, fell on end on
the topgallant forccastle. The vessel also car
ried away her spanker boom. By what
seems almost 4 miracle, no II was hurt.
Brown, who was on the main royal yard,
sixty-fivc feet above the deck, was pitched
clear over the yard, but seizelthc mnin royal
stay with a death grip. Asst wreck fell he
swing out over the port side and into the
waves, but the vessel righted on her keel Just
ut that time, and he swung inboard again
md alighted Just aft of the deck houses. The
deck was full of water up to the rail, and the
water broke Browns fall. Luckily the
wreck from a}oft fell on the deck, instead Of
dragging alongside.
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may make md every unacknowlc1gcl
letter sent TO US. am n peaceablc com.
municant Of tho church, and the vow |
mndc TO II to do tho works Of peace and
not Of wrath | shall keep like the vow l
made to you Of 4 ptrc heart and q pure
lifc."
"Then, sir, I shall find one who will
defend me-Mark Hanson. | am going
there ut once"
"lIold on, Carrie! l will go there with
you."
lie overlook her Mt the end Of town and
she felt his passive moral authority which
had both conquered and exaspcraicd her.
as llc rode nj her side.
Bred among some OF the old pictist,
NONRESIDENT German sects, David had M
influence Above courage In his steady,
tranquil, yet deep nature, where love
could lie like n trout poised In the brook,
ut perfect rest, with all It's graces and nil
Its gamcncss.
Mark lIightmnn came out from his
crib of Spanish cocks, which he raised
for tho sporting trade or fought them
himself.
Carrie" said he, with calm hospitality,
what brings you yery 1t was Dave. I
see. Ncgcrfoot, go yandcr, and lay
DOWN."
"Mark, I come to you for justice. II
cannot love you, you will defend me.
I1cad t%ilcsct"
"And these, too, Mark" from Dave
1lightman.
They passed tho skulking letters over
to the only person In the world who
could have suffered any known injury at
Dawes and Carries hands.
Mark read poorly, physical education
and not the spelling.book being his bus.
lie was OF warm blue eyes and soft red
complexion, and made of tcndons and
small joints, and cool as such impetuous
men ever arc who subduc themselves by
exposure and sporting society.
Ills check sparkied once or twice, and
then tanned It's crimson down. Finally
he assorted the letters and put them
together and touched them TO his nose. s
Excuse me" he said. I'm in the
habit of living on material food, rabbits,
'possums, and what varmints education
has left us yer It's not good till it git
right old, and so l put these letters to my
nose, for they're ancient history. Yes,
they are in the proper condition to be
brilcd."
II come to you, Mark, because we had
been friends, and TO show you that we
considered tho writer of those vile impu-
tations TO be your enemy also"
II appreciate your confidence, Carrie,
and Dawes too, in coming along. There's
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WHEELING, WA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 80, 1887.

md you shall ut last have an active
career. You shall raise tho game chickens
while ! so OIL and fight them, and when
VIC win together YOU shall praise my
breed Of fowls In well.contriycd articles,
and will have them published In the
newspapers"
"Tako him and mako n man OF him.
Carrie Deyoo said. "Dear Mark, what
shall I give you for your sagacltyYn
"Ncgcrfoot."
"Takc him."
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TIE rREAcnERoUs MAID.
All Arranged for the Murder OF Her MI
tress When tho Police Stepped In.

All Arranged, for the Murder OF Her Mis-
tress When tho Police Stepped In.
A few days ago a lady moving in good so
ciety in Paris and occupying an apartment in
one of the most fashionable streets in the
Champs Elysees quarter received the visit of
n police official, who informed her that ut
eleven o'clock that evening she was to be
murdered md her rooms %plundered. She
laughed ut the idea, and the more so when
the inspector proceeded to ask her for par
ticulars about her servants. Her butler had
been for many years in her employment, her
cook the same, and so forth. Her own maid,
who had come last, had been eight years with
her and thoroughly enjoyed her confidence.
Yet, to her amazemcnt, the official explained
that this very woman was the accomplice Of
her wotild-be assassin.
At last the lady was induced to listen to
the voice Of reason, md measures were ar
ranged accordingly; though she felt con-
WINGED TINT there was no ground for alarm.
What was her surprise when, punIctually at
eleven o'clock 2. NJ, after the butler and nil
stairs for the night, q ring was heard at her
door. The mnid opened it and told her mis-
trcss TINT II man wished to see her OH partic-
ular and urgent business. The lady replied
that she could not sec him Mt that late hour,
but the maid returned with the message that
the unknown visitor insisted on an inter
view. .tAnd look, madame she trium-
pllantly exclaimed, .'hc is coming in !" The
mantcntcred the room and was advancing in
u threatening attitude toward the lady, when
the inspector and two policemen, who Ind
been cleverly concealed, polnccd upon him
md took the burglar and the maid off in
their custody.
The officers had been admitted by tho lady
unknown to the servants u shorttimc before.
The plot Ind been discovered by. n policeman
on his beat, who overheard q conversation,
between tho burglar and the maid in a
n%eighboring street and followed the latter to
the house. The mar, was already known to
the police as n dangerous criminal. Rut for
the accidental discovery the lady would have
been murdered without any one interfering
IN her behalf. The burglar and the, ser
want have made q full confession.--Londoa
Telegraph.
Playing cards are worth IS 80 a pack upin
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ALL AbOARDl

tenn, calling the first one Allen, or Arm.
strong. or Adams; the next Bcardsley, or
Burroughs, or Berry, and so on. That, YOU
remember, is how Oliver Twist was named.
He came after a boy named with "S''
for IN initial, and SO he took T for his
and became Twist. Later still it was the
custom in New York to name foundlings
after the place in which they wero found,
rs Washington Park, Esq, or John Bat
terry, or Mary Highbridge. That was seen
to be inhuman. It cursed the little ones
for life. To-day, Mr.. Blake gives them all
good practical names as they occur, to him,
such Us Mary Howe, Peter Cooke, Isabella
Winters or whatever may pop into his head,
He probably christens more babiesthan any
clergyman, sometimes 500 in n year.
Martha York, our founding, hasnow been
handed to the driver of tho ambulance or
pauper-wagon standing ut tho door. Hetook
It with tho same %unconcern with which he
also took tho jelly for tho sick husband and
several other bundles. a dozen broken-
down women, rum.soaked md diseased, or
paupers out Of house and home, and two or
three men Of the Same sort, climb into the
wagon, and off it goes to tho foot Of East
Twenty.sixth street, just beyond the morguc
and Bellevue Hospital. Beside the wharf a
large and pretty steamboat is lying, and ali
about it is u scene of hustle and confusion.
Policemen arc in charge, ladies' and gentle
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VIII tho reader, merely to obligc me, fancy
himself a founding, kicking hts heels III air
and rubbing his swollen eyes on n doorstep
in New York? IF YOU are practical you say
you prefer a humdrum routine babyhood, or
II you aro sentimental you remind mo TINT
~foundlings have often climbed the highest
lndders Of power md famc; that Moses was
II founding, and TINT Cyrus the Great and
Romulus and Rcmus were no different.
But If lyon really were found on one Of our
New York doorsteps YOU would not excite
much interest or attention. Foundlinr arc
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STAINS NATIONAL DOOR.
"'"'''binE hlnck-eyed Maids and Nobl
D8Hs Rcdotentw Will, Gnriic,

"'"'''h'nE hlack-eyed Maids and Noble
Doas Rcdoient with Garlic.
! remember n charming French friend OF.
"'"ewloused, now andaeain, to give himself
"S!ea' treat of gigot stuffed with garlic; after
winch meal he would drink few glasses of
,'Va' smoke n cigarette or two Of caporal, md
,"eh call upon me and invariably kiss me.
.'ls breath was altar Of roses or css. bouquet
Eun,lared to the person of an average Sran-
@n. iy an extravagant and continuous
assumption Of garlic, these people, men
NV ,I,AI women, get It into their skins. From
thelr skins 1t passes into their clothes, so that
,is! walk about in a small personal atnlos-
s S"s re- OF garlic jn%describably sjckly md
M, ~ Spanish gentleman remarked to nc one.
lily Ky III u Madrid salon. whilst praisins Eng
III Women. their beauties, virtues, etc,
,,anefe IS only ono fault that + detected in
iItt tas skin I,as no perfume. When
,lSEss a Spanish lady's hand, l smell thnt
hMN,eio''s national odor that wc all adore;
c cu. IN English lady's hand, though deli.
s,"si white ind soft, does not absolutely
,,HM o e! nnythingml He missed, foor fellow,
'' 'Mht Of sarlic.-lddrid Letter.
co An lrishmm writing to a debtor says "
ffnt"M'siehl!y expected before this to- receive
JWt You MI agreeable snrprisc,t-Sh0e and
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It's not because Of their treatment III the
city's, hands that the homeless babies die,
1t Is because of their exposure after their
mothers leave them, because their mothers
drug them because they arc born, in misery,
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ON III WAY TO BLAcKwELL's ISLAND.
clumsy, stumbling herd of what arc called
"'drlnk and disorderlies. Tho steamboat Is
going to all the official islands up the East
river-to Blackwells, Wards and Randall's
islands, where IRE the hospitals, mad.houses,
~alms-houses and penitentiary. Consequently
.unfortunates destined for ull these places are
among her passengers, Fitting aboutamong
all the others on the boat md on tho wharf
are several women in clean, neat suits of
what we MI know as "bed.tick." Some are
Of rcp!ulsiyc aspect, with battered and bruised
faces, but here and there one sees n healthy,
Martha York is handed, and she takes the
founding on board the steamer and feeds It
with a bottle.
These women in suits Of bed-ticking are
what arc called "ten.day prisoners" They
arc abandoned women arrested for walk
ing the streets, drunken and quarrelsome
wives from the tenements, and Migrants.
This, then, Is the introduction of one Of the
city's wards to its new carcer-dandled by a
courtcsan from the lowest depths and by her
taken into the thick Of a crowded boat-load
of thieves, pickpockets, paupers and bad
women and among the blind, the halt, the dis
eased and the mad. All! this Is shocking
cruelty, the very refinement Of outrage and
yet.Suo Littlc 1Illlotc1lL hIlUWs lluuhnL VI us
environments, but looks on with wondering
eyes, happy II 1t but escapes pain.
It Is taken to the last landing the boat
makes, the Infant Asylum on Randalps
:lsland-.a great well LIGHTED, %scrupulously
clean three-story brick building, with IN ay-
erage census of $50 foundlings coming and
dying daily, mainly the latter. Some paid
nurses move aboutthe wards experimenting
the women who nurse the %foundlings. The
poor little waif has not escaped theguardian-
ship OF vice and crime and will not while
the great heartless city is its guardian. The
nurses are tho same bad women, paupers and
iconynlescent invalids We. saw on the boat,
The best of them are apt to be self.commit-
ted paupers with babies of their own. The
othersa are fallen women just out Of the lying
in hospital and pauper women who have
gone to tho hospital In the same condition.
1t has been found that they treat the help
less little waits of tho streets very unfairly,
nursing their own babies and starving the
others If they are not watched. But they
are watched and the best care the humane
paid nurses Gun exact fol, the little ones is
given to them. The great mniosity die and
are buried in a s%tartlingly plain and unhal-
lowed-looking pit in tiers md rows, foot to
head In lines and OF topiof one another, In
the other direction. The little collins arc
numbered and by the records that are kept
my founding Gun be traced from where rs
mother abandoned It to- its coffin, but no
need for this was ever known. No mothe.
ever yet has called for the corpse of her little
one, gG!gta SFiGA tEsS LEwgstEl
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STRAY BABIES.
HOW TIE METROPOLIS ACTS AS
MOTHER TO THE WAITS.

What Would nefail tho Reader II He
We're IA I'aby Abandoned on n New York
Observation-Disclosures Charity IN Making to
Save the Notwithstanding Asylums.
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I'AI'A's LULLABY.


You're sound asleep at last,
You restless little elf
Wee imngc Of myself,
Old Morpheus holds You fastl
Rest, tiny, tirel feet
Rest, chubby, Modelling hands.
You, my imp from Fairyland
Repose in slumbcr sweet.
The llvclong day, my boy,
Like bee among tho flowers,
You've slipped from all tho hours
Life's honey-childhood's Joy.
So peaceful Is .your brow,
Methinks the angels fan
Your ruddy facc, my man,
As they watch DER YOU now.
And papa is Mt rest!
Hes found longed-for rclosc,
say it-and It goes
Asleep l like you best.
I1nIororo,,pl Nail
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c, An lrishman writing to a debtor says u
ffspa'uell!y expected before this to receive
i i"ai y"n nm agreeable surprise. --&oe and